eMedia Investments Silently Discontinues Ultraview With Star Select And Zee Family Removed From Openview Platforms After 2 Years

In 2023, eMedia Investments' unveiled plans to rival with MultiChoice's DStv with the launch of Ultraview. It served as an add-on to the current Openview offering and comprised of two packages the first package EDGE offered youth based content with the other Spice TV offering Bollywood stories.
Spice TV comprised of just two channels Star Select and Zee Family served as the remainder of eM…

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Spice TV: Could Zee Family And Star Select Also Exit Openview's Ultraview Or Could A Possible Restructure Be Underway?

Last month, it was reported eMedia Investigation would be axing OUTtv by the end of the month. As further content fold under the eVOD streaming service, while Ultraview came with a fee content from OUTtv comes at no charge.
Of course, what eMedia Investments failed to mention was that FUSE would also exit the platform as they form part of a new joint venture on eVOD, OUTtv Proud. Thus concluding e…

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Reliance In Talks To Buy Majority Stake In Disney's Star Indian Business

Over the past few months, there have been many reports that Disney has been looking at its options with regards to its business in India, called Disney Star, formerly known as Star India, which it acquired when it purchased 20th Century Fox in 2019. Disney Star includes the streaming service Disney+ Hotstar, film studios such as Star Studios, an array of over seventy linear channels, and much mor…

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GoQuest Media Will Now Handle Distribution Of Disney Star Across Africa

Indian broadcaster Disney Star, which operates the Disney+ Hotstar streaming service, has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Mumbai-based distributor GoQuest Media.
The pact sees GoQuest becoming the sole distributor for Disney Star’s content portfolio across Africa, including content dubbed in both English and Hindi and encompassing TV and OTT rights to Disney Star’s linear programming ca…

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Disney Exploring Possible Sale Of Indian Business Home To Star Life And Star Select

Walt Disney (DIS.N) is exploring options to sell or find a joint venture partner for its India digital and TV business, a source with direct knowledge said on Wednesday.
The talks are in a "very, very nascent" stage and no potential buyer or partner has been approached so far, and it remains unclear how the process will pan out, the person added."Talks have begun internally (on) wha…

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Review: The Dominance Of Bollywood, Turkwood And More On The Openview Platform

Openview is a free-to-view platform owned by eMedia Investments that is currently available in over 3 million households offering a range of reality shows, drama series, movies, telenovelas, cartoons and so much more.Since the rollout of the pay-tv tier to the platform, Ultraview offering content from India with Zee Family and Star Select as well as LGBTQ and youth oriented content from OUTtv and…

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New Series Alert: Bohot Pyaar Karte Hai And Ajooni Coming Soon To Star Select

Star Select, a general entertainment channel owned by Disney Star serving as a freemium version to the current StarPlus channel is gearing up for the rollout of two new series, Bohot Pyaar Karte Hai and Ajooni.Synopsis for Bohot Pyaar Karte Hai:The show is about a girl named Indu who lives with her younger sister and parents. Indu loves a guy named Mahesh and wants to go meet him and propose to h…

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New Series Alert: Saraswatichandra And Chikoo Ki Mummy Durr Kei Coming Soon To Star Select

During the week, eMedia Investments alongside Zee Entertainment Enterprises and Disney Star unveiled two channels for the Openview pay-tv service, Zee Family and Star Select. The channel features a variety of content ranging from drama series, movies and reality.After a few days, Star Select a sister channel to the English dubbed Star Life channel also seen on the Openview platform announced the …

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New Channel Alert: Openview To Add Some Spice To Ultra

Right in time for the Easter holidays, Ultraview is surprising audiences with a second bouquet on Ultra, their recently launched Pay TV offering.
Will have the latest addition of niche channels with never-been-seen programmes, and that launched at 6:30pm on 6 April 2023. It will be home to two channels: Star Select and Zee Family, and promise to be an entertainment hotspot with a variety of Hindi …

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Drafted Version: What To Expect On Openview Ultra's Highly Anticipated Channel, Star Select?

A few days ago, eMedia Investments unveiled two new channels for their Ultraview bouquet, Zee Family and Star Select which are expected to rollout on April 6th. Prior to that, sources had provided content details to one of the new channels, Zee Family. Zee Family as mentioned a while ago will be spun off from Zee TV offering shows like Goan Gullies, Baal Shiv and Ghar Ek Mandir. In a few days, St…

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New Channel Alert: As Expected, Zee Family And Star Select Will Be Rolling Out On The Openview Ultra Platform In The Coming Days

Last month, eMedia Investments unveiled phase 1 to their unbundled pay-tv offering which would take on the likes of DStv and StarSat, Ultraview Pride. Home to the gay oriented channel, OUTtv alongside the youth oriented channel, FUSE TV.Prior to that, eMedia Investments was said to be working on 4 TV channels of which the latter, Zee Family and Star Select where nowhere to be seen with speculatio…

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Recap To The Past Month: The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Spice Bouquet On The Openview Platform

Earlier in the month, eMedia Investments unveiled the first batch to the pay-tv venture Openview Ultra known as Ultraview Pride or just Pride. It is basically an LGBTQ type bouquet consisting of two general entertainment channels one of which DStv reject, OUTtv and FUSE.During the launch consumers were kind of curious as to the fate of Spice TV which is basically an expansion to the current Bolly…

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Openview Consumers Are Not Willing To Switch To Ultraview

During the week, eMedia Investments unveiled Pride the first of several pay-tv offerings currently bundled under Openview Ultra (also known as Ultraview) joining rivals such as MultiChoice's DStv and On Digital Media alongside StarTimes' StarSat platform.Pride comes with two dedicated general entertainment brands FUSE and OUTtv currently priced at R74.99 per month. Both of which cater to …

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New Channel Alert (Rumour): OUTtv + FUSE + Zee Family + Star Select Coming Soon Exclusively To Openview Ultra

eMedia Investments is prepping up the pay-tv version to the current Openview platform and from what is seen these past weeks I wouldn't be shocked if it was unveiled before the end of the month and before we get to the four channels, here's what you should know.For those using Openview, there was 4 test channels and from what was seen through those lab experiments were SABC 2, SABC 3, Zee…

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